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Amelia Earhart:

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

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Recommended Viewing 0

Walk the Line, about the life of Johnny Cash.

Whether or not you like country music, It is, by any standard, an excellent movie.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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The Council of Bent 0

At Above the Law, Mark Herrmann takes a close look at Donald Trump’s brain trust.

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A Classic Case of Psychological Projection 0

Rex Huppke finds it laughable, in a twisted, depressing sort of way, that Republicans are accusing Democrats of extremism. He notes that

Democratic extremism – in the eyes of the Republicans apoplectically screaming “COMMIES!” – is largely a reflection of what mainstream Americans want. They’re sick of high food prices, unaffordable rent and health care, anti-science rhetoric, cruel immigration policies and the kind of wanton governmental corruption Trump and the GOP engage in daily.

Republicans have controlled the government for almost two years and have only proved themselves to be the real extremists.

The entire piece is worth the few moments it will take you to read it.

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The Laundromat 0

Thom and Heidi Siegmund Cuda follow the money.

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The Watchers 0

Poster on wall says,

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Denial is Not Just a River in Egypt 0

It’s the Republcain solution to climate change.

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Parks and Wreck 0

Donald Trump continues his assault on what Wallace Stegner called “America’s best idea.”

Aside:

If he can’t monetine it, Trump has no use for it.

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Isaac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

H/T PoliticalProf.

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A Tune for the Times 0

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Republican Newspeak 0

At the Las Vegas Sun, Ron Mitchell decodes de code.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0

Jim Crow looks at the rising and says,

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Vaccine Nation, Reprise 0

David dissects the disinformation disseminated by disgusting deceivers who dismiss documented data.

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Vaccine Nation 0

At the Psychology Today website, Robert N. McCauley points out that

In light of:

  • the tens, if not hundreds, of millions of lives that vaccination has saved over the past hundred years from the prevention of crowd diseases (such as smallpox, polio, and measles),
  • the current resurgence of measles and death therefrom in America in the face of the newest wave of vaccine hesitancy, and
  • recent findings that some vaccines (e.g., for shingles) aid human health in additional ways (such as decreasing the probability of dementia),

why is resistance to vaccination so longstanding and widespread?

Read the article for his thoughts on that question.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Therefore, an armed family must needs be a polite family.

Q. E. D.

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The Snaring Economy 0

Apparently, price-gouging is the hip new thing.

There’s are reasons for regulations, and this is one of them.

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H. G. Wells:

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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DOGE Bull 0

C&L follows the money.

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